Rds1983

Welcome. Hope you're more successful than the last few. Is this what Alan Nixon was talking about or is there something else?

It probably is a football person one the board; hopefully a striker will be signed next week as well though. Loic Remy will not leave Chelsea until they have a replacement for him already signed.

Need cheerng up after throwing away two points in that game so going to cheer myself up with a made up ITK. 'Lacazette announced as a Villa player next week.'

If that game is not up first on MOTD then we are in for a cracking afternoon. Hopefully Norwich now take a massive confidence hit and go on a terrible run.

Liking the Liverpool fight back. Norwich need to lose and I have Firmino in fantasy football.

2-1 Norwich

Would probably walk, claim constructive dismissal and get his full contract paid.

Even with the parachute payments the money we will lose from not getting the tv money will outweigh anything we can make from finding a potential Vardy.

The existing member states placed restrictions on them when they joined to try and stem the flow of 'undesirables' coming straight over. Thye do not get free movement until 2018 (as 5 year's is all it takes to bring thier people up to speed apparently). Until then they are bound by restrictions on work and trade.

Same as FFP. The whole system is being fixed to keep cerrain teams at the top. We will end up like the Greek league where one team wins every year.

Ditto.

The light at the end of the tunnel would probably be a train.

Lets just hope that fm18 doesn't have Villa in League One. Hopefully they dont downgrade the club and players to much and it isn't to hard to get back up.

Working in Leeds and seeing the state of their fan base, how broken down they are and almost accepting that their fate is not going to change anytime soon. Most of them left anger behind years ago as they know it was futile. They now just look depressed. I dread to think that Villa could head this way.

As I said above I think he needs guidance on dealing with sports media. The headline article on bbc sport is now about Villa and Hollis talking to Pat Murphy. If you ignore his comments about Lerner he does say some valid points but the headline still reads "Villa in Crisis - new chairman".

Apparently there are rumours on Twitter that the board have pulled the plug on the January transfer budget and Remi is livid. Hopefully that's just nonsense and we are going to actually sign a player or two.

I don't think they will even make the top four. They lack squad depth, have had a lot of luck and teams appear to have started to figure them out and the traditional top teams will find another gear. They will probably drop down to sixth like Villa did in 98/99.

You mean something like an FA cup final against Arsenal; watched by the future king (who supposedly supports the team you play for), about 90,000 people in the stadium, millions and millions of people at home and also the 'Lesser Spotted Lerner'. I'm sure our players would do us proud. Apologies to anyone who had temporary forgotten that horrible day.

I think this guy needs some serious instructions on how to deal with the media, especially with regards to sports journalists looking for a story and alienating the fanbase. Every statement is worse then the last. I'm trying to look through it to see a positive but I can't. He seems to have latched on to the idea that success in football doesnt require money because Leicester are doing well this year. A team who very nearly got relegated last year and yes they are having a great year but I very much doubt they will finish as high up as they are now. They are also the exception and not the norm. I seriously hope this is just hullabaloo and that Garde is actually given the funds and help that he needs and is not handcuffed.

Can you please ask Tom Fox to sign off buying a decent striker?

Cheeky bid for Mascherano? What's the extradition agreement with Spain?

Looking at thier wiki page it doesn't read as an overly time consuming job; maybe he could still attend board meetings? Maybe he lives on Jersey and wants to help out?

Apparently Newcastle enquired about loaning him but LVG refused to let him go to a team in the UK.

Of their football team, not of the island as a whole. Although I havent actually read the article yet so who knows... http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2016-01-21/jersey-fa-appoint-former-aston-villa-boss-brian-little-as-the-islands-new-manager/

Don't Inter play a deep defensive line? If Vidic cannot work in that system than his legs being gone might not be the issue.